Open Food Web links
Hi people, Thanks for your interest in the Open Food Web project (those who were at the meeting the other night and others that I'm yet to meet :). For those of you that weren't there, basically we're developing something like e-bay for farmers that works closely with diverse distribution enterprises (community coops, box schemes etc) to make it easier to buy and get local food. We're committed to this being a free and open project, as we think there is a huge opportunity here if all the people working on it were collaborating! Can provide more information As discussed at the meeting, I have attached: - link to the Test Site - https://deep-sky-8243.herokuapp.com (free heroku hosting so bit slow and inclined to time out). This is all test data, feel free to put orders through etc (although obviously don't paypal or you'll pay me :) - If you want to look around the back-end, you can create an account and then email me and I'll give you admin access - FYI link to 'working' site - this is the one we're actually using (real farmers real food) but orders aren't open at the moment so don't put them in! - the source code is here https://github.com/andrewspinks/openfoodweb. (NB. License will be updated as soon as Andy is back from his holiday - most likely GNU GPL unless someone suggests a good reason why not. Re. discussion in the group, I think it is compatible with the license that Spree is distributed under - http://spreecommerce.com/resources/license? - "under the terms of the New BSD License", ) If you're interested in helping out, testing etc - that would be AWESOME! We have a trello board where we're racking up priority tasks, bugs etc (moving feast). Let me know if you're keen and I'll invite you so you have access. Cheers Kirsten
Hi, On 19/08/2012 11:16 AM, Kirsten Larsen wrote:
- link to the Test Site - https://deep-sky-8243.herokuapp.com (free heroku hosting so bit slow and inclined to time out). This is all test data, feel free to put orders through etc (although obviously don't paypal or you'll pay me :) - If you want to look around the back-end, you can create an account and then email me and I'll give you admin access
If I am buying something, in particular food, then I need to know the cost per Kg or enough other quantifying details. Eggs, 1 dozen eggs? Meat, a side of beef -- how many Kg of each cut? A box of fruit and vegetables -- how many Kg of each inclusion or at least the number of total kilograms and a break down of actual content (by percentage or item count) in a "small", "medium" or "large" box?????? Are those apples $5 per box or $5 per kilo? You can buy a kilo of mixed nuts, but if the bulk of the kilo are the cheapest nuts, then you don't have value if the mixed nut price is based on premium types of nuts. All those things need to be properly defined or you have no idea what kind of real "value" you are buying, especially if you cannot see the goods in a "real bricks and mortar" shop situation. Sure some value options are less tangible, but at the end of the day, if you are selling something, it needs to be clearly defined [see next paragraph]. I won't buy things like Tic Tacs at $47 per kilo, that's just ridiculous. But other buying decisions are made just as ridiculous without proper pricing / quantity details being available. Buying an N300 router for instance which only has 10/100 Ethernet ports means that you can only utilize 802.11n speeds (over 100Mb/s) when using wireless to wireless and not traversing the lesser Ethernet switching speeds. If the seller of the N300 router doesn't clearly specify the switch component as 10/100, then the product has somewhat been misrepresented. In order to get real value from an N300 router, you need gigabit ports (at least one) -- then there is the question of WAN vs LAN port capability, but I am digress away from the food site's "problem" of selling foods without clear pricing / product details. Cheers AndrewM
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Kirsten Larsen